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Pretty Little Liars Recap: Ezra Betrays Aria!

#TeamPLL, last night's episode of Pretty Little Liars was pretty decent, don't ya think? I'm not sure who "A" is anymore, but I have accepted that I will never get a satisfactory answer regarding that, so I'm not going to waste my time trying to figure it out. Once I accepted this, I've actually started enjoying the show again. And I can at least be happy knowing that I thoroughly enjoyed "Free Fall." So let's talk about it.

We open with Ezra walking into his classroom to find Spencer, who has just woken up, trying to hide Ali's diary, and I pretty much freak out the way I did when a friend of mine invited me over because she had a "surprise" a.k.a. making me watch the footage of her giving birth to her child:

Spence manages to leave the room, dashes into the bathroom, and changes into a wack outfit, and then Em and Hanna enter. Spence says that even though the original plan was to wait to talk to Aria about Ez, they need to tell Aria ASAP:

Unfortunately, all Em and Hanna can give me is a "Hell No!" and they veto this idea. Meanwhile, Ez and Aria chat, and he tells her that Spence is addicted to pills...and then gives gives Aria Spence's school file:

If Ezra wore a weave, I would snatch the hell out of it right now, but he doesn't, so I'll just yell cuss words at my TV screen while eating a bag of Lay's potato chips. I hate everyone and everything right now.

Toby shows up to Rosewood High to bring Spence lunch. Uh, does Toby have a job? Seriously, what does he do all day that he's always available to see Spence? See, that's why this show is for teens and not for grown-ass women like me, because young girls think Toby is cute and do not care that he doesn't have it together. I, on the other hand, think that is some bullcrap because I know that being good in bed and making turkey sandwiches does not pay for HBO Go. Toby, please get your life.

Anyway, Spoby kiss and make up after their falling out re: Toby's mom's death. Across the school, another duo is eating: Em and Hanna. Aria comes over and says they need to talk about Spence. She then shows them Spence's file about her drug problem:

Later on that the night, the Liars are at Spence's crib. They stage an intervention for Spence and show her the school file. This pisses Spence off, and she tells Aria that Ez is "A":

Holy. Crap. She continues to freak out and begs the Liars to believe her, and when they don't, she grabs her purse and Wren's prescription pad falls out:

Please, Jesus, put on your Bob Villa tool belt and fix this situation so the Liars will believe Spence!

We cut to Mike and Mona on a date...

...until Ez shows up at the restaurant. Mo tells Ez that she can't help him anymore:

After all the mess Mo has done, now she wants out?

It's too late for a change of heart, Mo! Ez feels the same way too and tells her she's not backing out now that things have gotten complicated.

We catch up with Em and Hanna, and they're discussing Ez being "A." Spence shows up and gives the girls the rest of her pills. She asks them to help set a trap for Ez by telling him that Ali is going to meet them at Ambrose Pavilion to get the money she's been waiting on:

Let's just hope this plan doesn't get screwed up.

The next day, Aria tells Ez about how Spence went H.A.M. last night. Ez says it's time to tell Spence's parents what's going on. Ez:

Ez manages to convince her that this what they should do until he mentions that Spence went to Radley because she thought Toby was dead based off just seeing the tattoo on a dead person's body. Aria asks how Ez knows about the tattoo, and he reacts the way the dude at the dry cleaners does when I realize that he shrunk one of my shirts:

Ez says she must have told him, and she says, "Yeah, you probably did," but her face says

Unfortunately, she doesn't and keeps cleaning dishes as she tries to make sense of everything.

Later on at the coffee house, Ez is there, and Em drops a bin of dishes so she can take a fake phone call in which she says she'll meet Ali at the Pavilion. Ez falls for this hook, line, and sinker:

Hours later, we see Spence looking like a hot mess and calling a couple of people—including pretending to be her mom when talking to a doctor's office—in the hopes of getting more pills:

Aria goes back to Ez's cabin by herself and tries to unlock the security system. Her first guess at the password? "Ezra":

I mean, really. How is this chick going to think that an alleged psychopath, who sets up elaborate traps and puzzles on the reg, would use his own name as the security code? Aria, your brain cells can't possibly as useless as a '97 MacBook. Use some common damn sense and try harder.

She does and finally unlocks it, but before we see her go inside, we jump to Mama Hastings. The doctor's office that Spence called to get more pills before she hung up calls MH back. No!!!

Hanna and Em show up at the zoo and head to the Ambrose Pavilion. Meanwhile, Aria goes inside the cabin and enters Ez's secret room. She doesn't see anything, so she leaves. She notices a book on the coffee table. In it, is a short story written by Ez and it's about Ali:

Back at the zoo, Hanna and Em have been waiting for Spence to show up as the zoo is almost about to close. They see Spence enter from across the room, so they set the money down and head off while Spence gets in position. But are we sure that's Spence? I'm sure as hell not. I don't have a good feeling about this...

As Aria reads the story, she sees that Ez has arrived at the cabin and he checks his phone: He gets a text message from the security system letting him know that someone gained access to his place:

Aria quickly puts the story in her purse and runs out of the room. Ez enters and finds her car keys on the bookshelf. DAMMIT!!!!! He then looks at the book that had his Ali story hidden in it and an open window. I'm praying for you, Aria!

She runs to her car and realizes she left her keys in the cabin. So she heads into the woods. Great idea! Not. Anyway, she heads toward the William Tell Lodge. Ez enters the same woods and calls out to her. He gets close to her but doesn't see her and walks away. She gets up and runs toward the ski lift:

This is stupid, but OK.

We return to the zoo. Em and Hanna are waiting for Spence to make her move. The real Spence shows up, causing Em and Hanna to chase after the fake Spence:

So who the heck was the fake Spence? Mona? I don't know, but the three of them get locked inside the zoo. UGH!

Jumping back to the woods. Aria gets on the ski lift, and a second later, Ez does. She panics. He admits that he knew Ali and Aria ugly cries. Aww, give Lucy Hale

Or maybe just a Teen Choice Award. After all, she's no Meryl Streep, but still. Hale is bringing it. Ez tells Aria he was writing a true-crime book about Ali, that he lied to Aria a lot (duh!), that he pursued her to get to the bottom of the story, but he didn't know he was going to fall in love with her:

Who wants to hear about love when the guy just admitted that he's a scumbag? Next!

Aria's livid and pulls the story out of the bag and tells Ez she's going to read the whole story. He reaches for it, and when Aria moves, she drops it and the pages scatter all over the ground:

I hate when characters drop significant things on TV shows. Weak!

We cut to Mo and Mike hanging out at his house. Aria arrives home. She goes to her room and sees a book Ez gave her when they were dating. She throws it. I get it, girl. Listen to Mary J. Blige and you cry your eyes out.

Spencer shows up at home, and Toby's there. He gives her a necklace and bounces. Mama Hastings asks for alone time with Spence. She tells her that she can't cover for Spence again. And they both tear up:

We end on "A" picking up the scattered pages from Ez's story—and even though we're back at square one, I'm OK with this epi.

Alrighty, what did you think of this episode? Were you surprised by Ez's betrayal?